Youth from Jobat, India visit Canada for Canada Youth 2009 Conference

OTTAWA, ON -- On 6 July 2009, a group of four youth from the Jobat area in India arrived for Canada Youth 2009.

Roby Tomar, Deepak Baghel, Deepika Tomar, and Jaklina (Sonya) Parmar were all a part of the hosting youth group for last year’s Youth in Mission trip to Northern India, with The Presbyterian Church in Canada's historic mission partners in the Vindhya-Satpura mountain range (formerly referred to as the Bhil Fields). Members from last year’s YIM trip, Aisling Boomgaardt together with Rev. Andrew Johnston hosted the youth for their first week in Canada at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Ottawa.

Pictures in the slideshow below are from their time in Ottawa, visiting schools, supermarkets and hospitals and experiencing Canadian wilderness at Camp Gracefield. The youth will spend this week with Sarah Travis in Oakville, Ontario, before heading to the Canada Youth 2009 Conference at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

The youth will finish off their trip to Canada with a visit to MacNab Presbyterian Church in Hamilton, Ontario, and two days in Toronto with members of last year’s Youth In Mission trip, Liz Brewer and Lindsey Hepburn.